Thank you so much for all of your kind Christmas gifts and messages. We are very grateful. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Have a lovely holiday! Warm regards,
Mr. MacBean , Mrs. Bishop , Mrs. Bernard, Mrs. Barrow, Mrs. Howell and Miss Hooton
Home Learning Year Two
HAVE A FABULOUSLY HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Should you wish to do a little extra writing practice at home over the holiday, here is a possible activity:
- Response to a “story introduction”.
Can you write the next part of the story, following on from this introduction? :
I was feeling very odd when I woke up this morning. I was strangely hot and felt as if I wanted to scratch myself. When my alarm clock went off it actually scared me, and I leapt out of bed. I landed lightly on my feet.
When I looked into my bedroom mirror I couldn’t believe what I saw.
Could this be possible?
I had turned into a chimpanzee!!!
We wanted to make sure that you are aware of a Mini-Winter Reading Challenge that you may wish to take part in. All you have to do is read at least 3 books between Tuesday 1 December 2020 and Friday 15 January 2021. Now I know that you're likely to read more than 3 books in that time, - so perhaps that can be the ultimate challenge - How many books can you read?
Although this link mentions the Summer reading Challenge, it will take you to the page you need:
https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
Home Learning - Year 2 Dragons and Unicorns
Can you do a short piece of writing about “Dragons” or “Unicorns”?
Your writing could take any shape you like:
- a poem
- an acrostic poem
- a story
- a factual account of how dragons or unicorns appear in stories or coats of arms
- a newspaper article
- a description of a particular dragon/unicorn
- a play script
The choice is yours! Happy writing!
- deciding is groups are equal
-forming multiplication sentences
-using arrays
- practising the 2, 5 and 10 times-tables
-solving multiplication word problems
COUNTRIES IN EUROPE CHALLENGE!
Can you find out the names of some of the countries in Europe?
If you look at a map of Europe you could see where these countries are. Which ones are close to England? Which are further away? Which countries are bigger and which are smaller?
Next week, we will challenge the children in Year Two to name as many countries in Europe as they can.
Can you learn the names of five?----ten? --- or maybe, twenty?--- even more?!!
EUROPE (47 countries)
Dear Year Two Parents,
Some reminders:
Next Monday (7th) we have a visit from a theatre group who are performing “The Elves and the Shoemakers”. We are encouraging children to get into the spirit of the event by wearing Christmas hats/elf-costumes (red and green) for the day.
On Tuesday (8th) we are filming our contribution to our “Christmas Performance”. The children (and staff) will be encouraged to wear their pantomime costumes for the whole of the day.
Writing an Adventure Story
The children are planning out their stories and are going to be writing a section on Thursday and Friday, and then again next week.
I will be modelling the writing of my own story to help the children to structure and organise their story-writing; and to draw attention to how to develop characters, settings and the plot.
It would be great if you could chat to your child about their story (– the plot, the characters, the monsters) and so help them to have some good ideas about the content of their story.
DM
Many thanks,
Mr. M and Mrs. B
Year TWO Home Learning
Ancient Greek Fact Finding Mission - Research
Have a go at finding the answers to some of these questions. See how many you can do. It doesn’t have to be all of them:
Find three facts about Athena?
Who was Poseidon?
What is the Parthenon?
Find the names of some ancient Greek Heroes.
Who was Aesop?
Find out three facts about “Alexander the Great”.
Who lived on Mount Olympus?
What was an Oracle?
What sports did the ancient Greeks play?
Dear Year Two Parents,
This year’s Christmas Performance is going to have to be done a little differently.
Rest assured that we still have exciting plans!
Without wanting to give too much away, here is how we would like you to help us if you possibly can please:
We would like each of the children in Year Two to take the part of a pantomime character.
They can have some choice with this; perhaps dependent on what costume you are able to provide from home. It will be better for the performance if we have a nice variety.
Here are some examples. (You may think of others.)
Ugly Sister, Cinderella, Evil Queen, Widow Twanky/ Pantomime Dame, Prince Charming, Fairy Godmother, Buttons, Aladdin, Genie, Back-end-of-the Cow, Robin Hood, Maid Marion, Sheriff of Nottingham, one of the seven Dwarfs, Rapunzel, Puss-in-Boots, Dick Wittington, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, Captain Hook, Tigerlily, Wendy Darling, the Giant, Jack, mermaid, merman, pirate, “lost boys” etc
It doesn’t matter if we have more than one of the same character. Actually a troupe of Pantomime Dames/Ugly Sisters would be funny!
Do let us know if you are struggling to find a costume and we can help sort something out.
After you’ve had a chat at home about what character you’d like to go for, please could your child’s costume come to school as soon as possible (in a named bag), but before 7th December so that we can start filming with Mr. Spracklen.
Many thanks,
Duncan MacBean
Measurements Home Learning Year 2DM
Friday 20th November
You will need a tape measure, measuring scales and a capacity jar.
English Lessons
In our English lessons this half-term we are looking at some of the ancient Greek myths.
We have met Daedalus and Icarus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and next week, we will be finding out about the tragic story of Orpheus and Euridice.
We are using these exciting stories to provide an interesting context for developing Reading and Writing skills.
Later this half-term, we will be having a go at writing our own stories in the style of a myth!
Art Work
Alongside our work in English, we will be looking at pictures of ancient Greek pottery (decorated with scenes of their stories and their daily lives).
We will be making own "replicas" using plastic bottles covered in "papier mache".
I would be very grateful if you could provide a plastic bottle (or two) so that we can transform them into works of art. (plain, cylindrical 2-litre plastic bottles would best suit our purposes.)
Unit 4 - Money
In this unit of work we will:
Count coins and notes
Compare different amounts of money
Find different ways to make the same amount
Work out the amount of change
Solve two-step problems using money
Suffixes
To use suffixes to generate new words from root words.
These suffixes may help you :-
-ing, -ship, -er, -ful, -est, -ness, -ly, -ment, -ish, -hood, -dom, -less, -like
Here are some words you know. They are called 'root' words. Can you make some other words that start with them by adding suffixes ? (How about 15 new words?)
start child
glad nice
cold joy
enjoy ask
hope friend
beauty free
run happy
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Mathematical investigation -Make the Magic Potion:
Insects 6 legs
Lizards 4 legs
Bats 2 legs
Potion must have a total of 12 legs.
Can you make 5 different “12-leg-potions” ?
example potion one - 3 Lizards 4 + 4 + 4 = 12 legs
On Friday (13th), Mr Spracklen is going to record the children reading their lines so that we can put together a documentary-style presentation to share with you some of the work we have been doing since we started Year 2.
This presentation will be available to be viewed online as our Year Two Class Assembly the following week (hopefully on the Friday 20th November as previously advertised).
DM
Year 2 Home Learning - Poetry Friday 6th November
Can you make up a poem about a monster where you describe the monster using things that you don’t like?
This is the monster
I made up last week.
A monster so scary
I’m now losing sleep!
It has…
Here’s an example:
It has barbed-wired feet
And stinging nettle arms
When singing it sounds
Like the noise of car alarms
It has cold porridge for eyes
And a wasp sting nose
It has bullies for fingers
And burnt toast for toes
It has library fines for teeth
And flat tyres for eyes
It sounds like an argument
Whenever it cries.
My poem uses rhyme, but yours does not have to.
How are you getting on with your reading during this windy, wet half-term holiday?
Have you done any Accelerated Reader Quizzes?
Have fun, Mr. M
Home Learning – Year Two Half-term Holiday Activities
1. Write down as many different totals as possible that you can get from ...
two different coins:
(There are a lot of answers!)
Show your answers like this:
1p+ 2p= 3p
1p+ 5p= 6p
2. I have sent you home with your Handwriting Books so that you can have a bit of time practising.
3. Accelerated Reader -
Can you read the books that you have taken home and complete some "Accelerated Reader Quizzes"?
4. Make a simple plan of part of a building, such as your home.
Can you label some of the different rooms and show where the doors are?
#InspiredToLearn Half Term Holiday Design Challenge
“Lest We Forget”
This half term holiday we would like you to have a go at making your own single poppy, we will attach these to a wreath that we will be making in school. The wreath will be placed at the town war memorial by some of our older children after half term as an act of remembrance for all those that gave their lives in conflict.
Design Specification:
- Your Poppy can be made of any material, clay, cardboard, felt, polymer clay, paper, recycled materials, etc.
- Your Poppy should be 3D, rather than flat.
- Your Poppy must be bigger than 5cm but smaller than 12cm in width.
- Your Poppy does not have to be red, in recent years we have used other colours to represent other groups of people who have given their lives in service of our country. You could research these groups and decide what colour you would like to make.
- Your Poppy could have a loop or hook which will enable it to be attached easily to our wreath.
- Please write your name and year group neatly somewhere on your Poppy.
Please hand your Poppy in to your class teacher by Wednesday 4th November for its inclusion on our collaborative act of remembrance.
The children in Year Two have been given a map of the World. For a “home learning” activity, I would like them to find where each of the continents and the oceans are located - and label these on the Map.
Many thanks, Duncan MacBean
